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Feb 9, 2014, New Eastern Outlook In an attempt to “settle” the Syrian crisis Washington and Riyadh has put forward a negotiator – the President of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces Ahmad Jarba. But it seems that today there’s a few people who do remember the story of Ahmad’s rise …

May 11, 2014, Press TV Syrian teenagers living in refugee camps in Jordan are sexually abused by Saudi men who first propose marriage but disappear before the end of the honeymoon period, a Saudi paper reports.   The Saudi Gazette said the Syrian families are duped into marrying their daughters …

May 10, 2014, Washington’s Blog Why Did America Switch Sides? America fought the Nazis in World War II and Al Qaeda since 2001. But – as hard as it is to believe – our government has now switched sides. William Blum writes: In Libya, in Syria, and elsewhere the United …

May 9, 2014, WSWS The Obama administration has entered into direct talks with the leader of the political front for Syria’s Western-backed “rebels” on arming them with US surface-to-air missiles, amid fresh confirmation that these forces are dominated by Al Qaeda-linked militias. Ahmad al-Jarba, the chief of the Syrian Opposition …

May 6, 2014, Inter Press Services The head of the U.N. team that investigated the Aug. 21, 2013 Sarin attack in the Damascus suburbs, Ake Sellstrom, is doubtful about the number of victims of the attack reported immediately after the event. Sellstrom has suggested that many people who claimed to …

May 7, 2014, Sharmine Narwani, RT.com OpEdge The attack took place shortly after the first stirrings of trouble in the southern Syrian city of Daraa in March 2011. Several old Russian-made military trucks packed with Syrian security forces rolled onto a hard slope on a valley road between Daraa al-Mahata …

Apr 25, 2014, RT.com Syria is scheduled to hold its presidential elections on June 3. The American media is mocking the idea of an election being held during a civil war that has left over 100,000 died and (sic)have become refugees. The media is prepared to discount the overwhelmingly expected …

May 6, 2014, al Ahed News Earlier this year, a news report revealed an email in which Qatar asked Britain’s arms contractor, BRITAM to transport chemical weapons to the Syrian town of Homs. The email was revealed after BRITAM servers were hacked and megabyted of classified internal files were released …

May 4, 2014, Jeremy Salt, Palestine Chronicle The latest evidence of a chemical weapons attack in Syria has emerged in the form of a video proudly filmed by the perpetrators themselves, the so-called ‘lions’ of Jabhat al Nusra, Al Qaida’s Syrian franchise, listed by the US as a terrorist organization …

May 6, 2014, Antiwar.com You can’t really send weapons to one rebel faction in Syria without them being spread amongst many groups. This reality has been a constant in the nation, where entering any faction’s territory or using any faction’s border crossing usually requires “tribute” in the form of some …